Time Machine Co-Ordinates VICLXXI66522662

 

So, you mean we have no good lead in newswise for February 26th, 1962?

EP: No, but here's a thought.  Look at yer co-ordinate number this week..

Okay...

So the 'VI' means it's volume six, an' the CLXXI means this is the 171st post of this volume...

Yeah...

But... yer total posts on Time Machine is 665...

So what?

So next week, it'll be 666- the Devil's number!  You should come up with a devil show, or a devil feature!

Say, that's not bad... let me think about it!  But don't tell our guest today- he's a pretty devout Catholic, and he might not understand.

Like he's gonna understand climbing into a phone booth in 1962 ta do a show in 2021?

Good point!  And another one is, we best get this show going!

Yessir!  An' why not start it out with a new debut!  This one isn't exactly from a box set, but it is from another Rarities collection!  Here's new old stuff at #10 from M10 stars The Explorer's Club!

NOTE:  The video is on FB, and despite the post preview showing it showed up, it obviously did not.  You can find it at this link.

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Welcome to our show, sir!

Ah-thank you verry much, Mister Martin!

You're just coming off airing a show where you saluted Jazz cornet player-bandleader Red Nichols

and some members of his original Five Pennies jazz group celebrating their 40th anniversary, including pianist Sid Appleman and vocalist Dick Noel.  In the mean time, I have a #1 on my M10 this week celebrating the 50th anniversary of a song, so it's kind of an anniversary theme today.

Red Nichols was a very fine cornet player and band leader.  It was sad that his style of music started fading out too soon, especially with all-a the talent he had in ta band...

No kidding, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa all played for him at one point or another.  And I loved your Lennon Sisters!

Dey were America's sweethearts, I'm not surprised.  Verry proud of tem.

So, it's time to get to the Panel picks.  We had an even fifty votes spread among 17 songs- including 2 that don't hit the charts until St Patrick's Day, one that debuts next week, and one that's the b-side to another charting record that didn't get a vote!

I don-a know a lot of these songs... of course, I know da Elvis an'a da Patsy Cline on ta list...

S'okay, just need you to read off the 4 finalists so the audience can pick a winner...

All right, then, a-one an' a-two...

We have-a Gene Chandler wit' The Duke Of Earl at #1 on-a Cashbox this week...

An' Bruce Channel wit' Hey Baby at #4...

An' dat sweet little Shelley Fabres wit' Johnny Angel, which don' debut till next week...

An' at last we got Elvis wit' his beautiful Can't Help falling In Love Wit' You at #30...

Thank you, sir!  There's your choices- and in the meantime, how about a LIVE 6D!

Let's start with Albert Hammond Jr, who had a #1 M10 hit with Set To Attack last spring...

His dad of course is the Albert Hammond who sang the big hit It Never Rains In Southern California; but we run into him this time because he and a lady we featured a while back, by the name of Diane Warren, wrote the Starship hit, Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now- a song that came about because the lady that would become Sr's 2nd wife (and Jr's mom) and Sr fought a seven year battle to get Sr's divorce from his first wife finalized.

This song comes into the story because of one Walter Afanasieff, who played keyboards and synth-bass on the single.  Walter became better known as a writer-producer for Mariah Carey, getting co-credits on her hit All I Want For Christmas Is You.  This hit, among the many records it has since set, became the first song in 59 years to hit #1 twice in two separated runs at the chart- and that happened 25 years after it's initial run!  After making top ten in Airplay (since it never was physically released back then) in 1995, it finally hit #1 in 2019- and again in 2020!  Only one other song has made two runs at the top- and that is our 6D victim, Chubby Checker and The Twist, fresh off of its second trip to the top, at #2 this week.

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Mr Welk, we'd like you to do what we call Overseas, If You Please- the other number one songs across the English-speaking landscape.

EP:  An' if you say I'm at #1 in England again, I'm-a gonna KISS you!

LW:  I don-a think so, Mr Presley...

"That Lawrence Welk, he's my kinda guy!"

No kissing, buddy!  Mr. Welk...

All right, a-one an' a-two...

You don't have to say that every time...

I know, but I got it a-copyrighted, and it costs you extra when I say it!  

Well played, Mr Welk, well played...

So in Australia, it was Elvis an' Can't Help Falling In Love...

New Zealand had the Peppermint Twist by Joey Dee an' ta Starlighters, which was #5 this week...

Canada had a The Duke Of Earl, just like us...

An' in England... Please don' kiss me...

EP:  ALL RIGHHT!!!!!!! 5 outta six weeks!  YEE HAA!!!

God, why do I have to listen to this all week?  And our big mover?

LW:  The Big Mover for this week is the Lettermen, fine boys, wit' Come Back Silly Girl, up from 100 to 60 for forty notches!

And now, how did the Panelists fare on the 1962 year-end chart?

How about 12 out of the 17?  We had...

Don and Juan's What's Your Name at 71;

Brenda Lee's Break It To Me Gently at 66;

Burl Ives and A Little Bitty Tear at 52;

Sue Thompson's Norman at 50;

Ace Cannon and Tuff at 44;

Of course, Elvis and  Finalist, Can't Help Falling In Love at 28...

TWENTY EIGHT??:? Geez...

Sigh... The Sensations and Let Me In at 25;

Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen with Midnight In Moscow at 24;

Finalist, Duke Of Earl at 15;

Finalist, Hey Baby at 14;

Finalist, Johnny Angel at 11;

And The Twist was #1! (It made #4 first time around in 1960).

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The remaining M10 this week:

9- El Michels and Piyat Malik slip 3 with Murkit Gem;

8- Saintseneca also with Wait A Minute;

7- And the trifecta of falling three spots with Lilly Hiatt's Brightest Star;

6- Royal Blood spins up 4 with Typhoons;

5- 3 upward notches for Neil Young and Pocahontas;

4- So too Tommy James and the Shondells and Hold On To Him;

3- Holding, Crack The Sky and Blowing Up Detroit;

2- Holding, Weezer and Grapes Of Wrath;

And a third week at the top for...

Home Free with Don McLean and American Pie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the Panel vote:

Elvis, you got 6%...

SIX??? Geez....

14% for Johnny Angel....

16% for Hey Baby....

And the winner, with 34%.....

...Gene Chandler, The Duke of Earl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And just maybe a "devilish" feature to celebrate my 666th music post to go along with him next week!